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    [PATCH] hugetlbfs file system · 9f3336ab
    Andrew Morton authored
    From Bill Irwin
    
    Tiny hugetlbpage ram-backed filesystem.
    
    Some way to export hugetlbfs through more standard system call
    interfaces was needed, and hugetlbfs already had inodes with ratnodes
    etc.  used to track offset -> page translations, so adding the rest of
    a filesystem around it was easy and natural.  Most of it is identical
    to ramfs, except ->f_op->mmap() is now just a wrapper around the
    hugetlb_prefault() to fill in the VMA, and to simplify it,
    ->readpage(), ->prepare_write(), and ->commit_write() are omitted.
    
    Permissions:
    
    (1) check capable(CAP_IPC_LOCK) in ->f_ops->mmap
            This may be redundant but it errors out with less state to
            clean up and at least clarifies the fact that checks are
            being performed at the relevant entry points.
    
    (2) check capable(CAP_IPC_LOCK) in hugetlbfs_zero_setup()
            This is called at shmget() time and is an actual potential
            security hole. hugetlb_prefault() does not perform this
            check itself, so it must be done here.
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